Thank you! Yay because I actually prefer the less dense, a little more fluffy but still rich kind.

(((Susan))) Eggs and cream cheese usually warm to room temp here in a couple hours, but that's also relative to the time of year/ temp in the house. If you want them room temp faster, defrost the cream cheese in the microwave and set the eggs in a bowl of warm (not hot) water. I want your cheesecake recipe! I've never made one, but I do have a springform pan and a houseful who all love cheesecake!

I'm sending Oldest to you for Art class. He's really enjoying the program we're using, but this is the first year we've ventured into Art other than crafts and such. Mary's choice of colors in the red one is something I never would've dreamed of working together, but it so does. I keep going back and looking at it again because it's really unlike anything I've seen before. I love the blue one. It's like looking across the water from the shore at night through a telescopic lense. Really cool.

@Susan in TN Banana Bread Dry Bowl- 2 cups all purpose flour 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon Wet Bowl (I use a 4 c glass measuring cup)- 1 1/2 cups mashed bananas (I use overripe frozen, thawed, usually 4 bananas) 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup canola oil 1/4 cup chopped walnuts (I always omit these) Directions- Preheat oven to 350. Mix dry bowl ingredients with a fork, then mix the wet bowl ingredients and pour the wet ingredients into the dry bowl. Mix together and pour batter into a buttered and floured bread pan and bake uncovered for 1 hour. Check with a toothpick (I use a butter knife) and if it's not completely done, bake another 5 minutes until toothpick (or butter knife) comes out clean. Remove bread from the pan while it's still hot and allow the loaf to cool some before slicing.

Sorry, I'm just now seeing this. I'll pm you in the morning.

Chicken herding here. How many children does it take...

Yes! Nothing surprises me anymore living in a house as old as ours. A simple repair is always the furthest thing from simple. Have you come across square nails before? Some of the stuff we run into is absolutely mind boggling and actually pretty ingenious for the times they were used in.

I wanna visit Krissi in winter because Brrrrrr, it's cold here already. We did in-person watching of sportsball (youth variety) yesterday and froze. If the concession stand would've sold hats and gloves instead of charging so much for a soda, they'd have made so. much. money. Oh yeah: Goooood morning! I'm enjoying my second cup of coffee in blissful silence while patiently waiting for the children to wake up. The sun is just now rising and is absolutely beautiful.

Christmas lights, yes. Halloween, no. Halloween decorations creep out my kids.

I dont know. It puffs up good, but it's definitely denser than a regular cake or bread. I freeze any bananas that are over ripe and use them for banana bread. (Usually takes 4 bananas per loaf.) Just let them thaw, cut the end, and squeeze them into a glass measuring cup. Add the other wet ingredients, stir and pour into the dry ingredients bowl. I mix everything with a fork, pour it into a buttered and floured loaf pan or bundt pan and bake at 350 for an hour-ish. I can PM you the recipe I use if you want.

Nah, I've made better.

Supper is almost finished, another load of laundry folded, more dishes done, and the banana bread is cooling but now I need to make some almond frosting to squeeze on it so it can be dessert per Middle's request. Fudge striped cookies and coffee. I love the South. My hair behaves better down there.

I've managed to cook and wash dishes twice, take Oldest to sports practice, and grocery shop with the two littles in tow. Time to start banana bread and get a head start on cooking supper. Busy, busy, Coffee and cookies Busy, busy Willy Nilly! There might be a such thing as coffee overloading. I've accomplished a LOT in two days. 🤣

Up and at em, ladies. Chop chop! Coffee is fresh, Coffee is hot, Wake up and join me, It's seven o' clock! (On a Saturday)

Schoolwork was done in time for later than usual lunch, we skipped art because company is coming, and now we're weekending.

Fun Friday! Art after lunch! I just looked ahead to Monday's math lesson and Woot, we're casting out nines! I love that little math trick.

I turn my volumes (ring, media, ect) off at bedtime and turn them back on in the morning.

Are you sure you aren't Renai in disguise? I think you just won the multi quote of the day award!

My father still uses it, but I thought it was something unique to him. I had no idea it was a known term.

You're only the second person in my lifetime I've heard use this term in this way. 🤣

I just thought of a fun science experiment for Oldest. I'm considering helping him make 2 DIY deodorants with the only difference being the key ingredient for odor control. We can label them left and right so he doesn't know which one is what for ingredients until the experiment is over and have him wear both daily before sports practice. Record results to see which controls odor the best.

Same here! (((Green Bean))) We've been back at it for I think 3 weeks now and you're absolutely right in that you'll be fine as soon as you're back into a routine. Take a deep breath.

CLE's phonics program is longer than just the Learning to Read course. Just like many curriculum, CLE's full phonics course is covered over the span of both first and second grades. You would need CLE Learning to Read plus their grade 1 & 2 Language Arts. A remedial reading course condenses phonics instruction to make it easier to place a student where they need to be and catch them up faster. CLE might have a remedial course, though, so definitely worth looking into.

R&S has a remedial phonics course https://www.milestonebooks.com/item/1-1138--/?list=Rod_and_Staff_Phonics Like HomeAgain already suggested, 100 EZ Lessons is also a great option. It clearly works for a friend of mine who has many more children than I do. I just couldn't quite get the knack of that program.